Black Friday: Here's What Stores Won't Tell You

11/20/2012 10:56AM

Are you gearing up for a Black Friday shopping experience? MarketWatch's Kelli Grant has the key information that stores and retailers won't tell you about the busiest shopping day of the season. AP Photo.

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I ... was ... it this way shopping is a competitive sport ... black Friday is the extreme there are no were after need to protect and here are a couple of good album ... but with the retailers are going to tell you is that the point really keep you in stores all day for seeing retailers Open ... Earlier this year as early as eight p m on Thanksgiving ... but then they have extra rounds of doorbusters going to help the night Wal-Mart for example they got one round of the one round at ten pm and in the next morning at five am ... so for consumer he doesn't know when the best deals are and when you're going to go because otherwise you're never going to get anywhere you know all those credit card offers that are throwing at you all don't be fooled a lot of times they carry very high interest rates as much as thirty percent so even if there's a twenty percent off discount for opening the car door for using it over the holiday weekend ... keep in mind that with every spending cap and often the first bill comes due dont wanna give up your email address well you might have to say goodbye to some of those deals ... that's fine Target and Sears are among the retailers to offering early access to Black Friday deals for select group of shoppers usually its high spenders in their sport where loyalty program ... they have a store credit card where they've downloaded some sort of an ... so if you're not among the select group of shoppers well you might not be able to get the Black Friday deals after all of those early birds have had access to of course with the retailer's leave the either adds is that you should prepare for pandemonium like Friday is not a day for the faint of heart the lines are long the crowds are big and they are unrelated but we are seeing more stores are offering ... some sort of special security that helped make sure that you don't have to go actually rushing for that doorbuster beginning to be a raffle ticket ... or some other sort of proof if you're early line and that's the deal that you want ... and force you can always get a lot of the same deals by shopping online ... that's what I planned ...